i have windows vista, and i have some problems with this operation system.
I want try linux UBUNTU, my question is "the simulator will work good on linux"?
thanks a lot

Well try new windows 7 , i do use for last month with no problems, yes vista made me so much problems but now with windows 7 all runs fine .About ubuntu yeah good staff but sorry not for windows gaming m8 ,wine its to slow and not all will work.

Well try new windows 7 , i do use for last month with no problems, yes vista made me so much problems but now with windows 7 all runs fine .About ubuntu yeah good staff but sorry not for windows gaming m8 ,wine its to slow and not all will work.

its first time i hear about "windows 7" can you get me more information?

I want try linux UBUNTU, my question is "the simulator will work good on linux"?

I have used LFS on Debian Lenny/AMD64, it worked quite fine and the frame rate was close to native, the card (nVidia 6150SE, nothing fancy) has decent accelerated drivers. Gamepad worked fine, had no wheel at the time, so I can't comment on that.

On my system (3500+, 7900GS, 2 gbit, ubuntu 8.04, wine 1.0) LFS runs identically and almost as fast as on XP (< 20% difference), but it's not worth playing at all without the full support of G25. LFS (and drunken RBR with friends sometimes) is the only thing why I still have Windows at home.

I have only Linux Fedora on my computer since 3 years, and I play only with LFS since this period and it works perfectly now.

At first, I had a lot of problems with shadows so I had to disable this option.
And sometime with new wine version, some problems came in (sound problem, etc...), but now the game is really good... And it never crash.

However I have two problem with my wheel (Logitech Formula EX) :
- I cannot seperate my 2 pedals. So I can't brake and accelerate at the same time.
- The Force feedback doesn't work (I have to disable it)

So, I want to know if someone can test the G25 for me under Linux ??? PLEASE...

usbtool g25-set-extended-mode (turns on the clutch pedal and shifter)
usbtool g25-set-range-wheel-900 (turns on full 900 deg support)
rmmod joydev && rmmod usbhid && modprobe usbhid (/dev/input/js0 disappears, you have to reload it)
chgrp games /dev/input/event6 (fixing permissions so you can use the wheel as your user)
chmod g+rw /dev/input/event6 (fixing permissions so you can use the wheel as your user)

(event number might be different, check your directory)

then run wine/lfs as usual. turn on force feedback, and if necessary, reconfigure all your buttons (i had to).

that should be all you need to get it working. one thing i must point out, is that wine's current force feedback implementation sucks ass... they added some stuff to get it working in 1.0, and haven't touched it since. your wheel will shake a lot, and you might experience issues with the pedals and shifter. can't do anything about that until the wine devs get their act together.

I have a "Logitech Formula Force EX" (not G25), and it seems to be recognized by my kernel (2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64).
Moreover, I can't find the file : /usr/src/linux/drivers/hid/hid-ff.c
(Even if I run the command : find / -name hid-ff.* -print)

So do I really have to recompile my kernel ?

The usbtool works : when I use it, the /dev/js0 disappear.
But I can't make it appear again, even if I use the modprobe usbhid :

usbhid won't be a module unless you make it a module. by default it's a built-in. easily changed in "make menuconfig". (same goes for joydev)

i don't have 2.6.27 installed here, but the file does exist on 2.6.25 and 2.6.26, you might want to give one of those a try.

cheers

edit: when you do get this all working, you won't need to unplug/replug, that's what the module reloading is for. besides, unplugging the wheel will reset it back to the "standard mode" (ie no clutch, no shifter, reduced steering)